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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1910
Page
2
Cooked in the Caloric method corn on the cob is described as sweeter and juicier with kernels that break open easily. The piece claims even old kernels become toothsome and notes a dramatic difference from traditional stovetop boiling.
County correspondent reports on daily doings in multiple communities. Local events include gatherings, notable visits, and everyday civic matters shaping life across the region.
Richland notes a strong Chautauqua week with good attendance. T F McCarty and family move to North Oak Street. D C Olive and Elwood Hadley depart on a Milwaukee business trip. Franklin Hadley visits relatives in North Carolina and the East. Dale Atwood improves after sickness. Mrs O B Trigs visits. A Mr Hamilton from Missouri dies at his father's home. funeral tomorrow. Gas work expands to several homes including Olive McCarty and Neville. Threshing continues. Miss Holmes of Deep River visits relatives.
Mrs G C Neiswanger of Harvey visited her parents in Ainsworth with relatives and returned home. Mrs Mary Breed left for Perry to visit her Allen Breed relatives. Charles Laird arrived from Davensport for a short stay with Dr A J Laird. Ruth Haster and Theresa Chihak shopped in Washington. Alma Johanson left Monmouth for Columbus Junction. Mrs F C Knapp visited Muscatine relatives and returned home. Miss Lela Rhodes visited friends and returned home. Mr and Mrs W T Trotter spent Friday in Columbus Junction at the Washington camp. Fr D Harding of Bennett visited his parents in Ainsworth and returned home.
Crawfordsville August 6. Mr. and Mrs. R C Holmes return home from visits in Greeley Gale and Washington state. Mrs Mina Sommer and baby from Wyoming arrive for a month with her father C Harper. Mrs Frank Clossen and Wm Randall depart for Washington. Rev J L Sawyer travels to Princeton Iowa for a sermon tomorrow. Mr and Mrs J G Maxwell M W Welch and Mrs Robt Shaffer go to Washington in the former’s auto. H P Cherryhomes returns this morning from Burlington.
Riverside notes list Jolbn Deateh and children returning from Iowa City after a visit at the Lou Langenberg home. Celeste Critz of Washington visits her grandparents Capt. and Mrs. Frank Critz. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knotek and Mrs. George Maresh visited in Iowa City. Miss Lucy Schnoebelen returned from a visit at the Sig home.
A reflective poem on charitable effort and the limits of words to aid the downtrodden. It contrasts preaching with actions and argues that real help requires hands on work rather than verbose admonition. Numerous lines critique talky philanthropy.
Chas Cummings returned Thursday from Des Moines after attending the Republican convention. Mrs Lou Rumelhart spent most of the week with relatives in Iowa City and came back Thursday. Charles Cummings and family plus Mr and Mrs John Rath visited Iowa City Thursday. Minnie Nicola returned from Kinross after visiting relatives. Miss Edna Kucher came home Thursday from North English after a few weeks with relatives.
August events in Wellman include Ed Mackey family visiting Hewitt Karr home. Cedar Rapids guests Ed Varney and daughter Zoe. Tom Moon from Iowa City spending days on his farm. Other items note Chautauqua attendance, local visits by Kalona residents, library meeting plans, and preparations for awnings and cleaning in the library.
Short visits and travels populate the week as Christiana Tames returns from Iowa City to Illinois relatives join in Chicago and Colorado Springs trips. The piece lists guests from Iowa City Joliet and Burlington with families hosting gatherings and a First United Presbyterian church picnic at Sunset Park featuring Della Allen and Margaret Henry among attendees.
West Chester report details an ice cream supper for M.KE. at Rev. Baumgarten's this evening. Several attendees also went to a ball game in Washington on Friday. JL P Jackson traveled to Washington on business on Saturday. Mrs. J M Godfrey plans a short visit to South Dakota.
West Chester land man J. D. Dayton sells a 760 acre farm adjoining Sigourney to H. G. Brown’s heir and Will Eldridge, with a $15,000 home on the property. The deal nears $100,000. Brown, the farm’s former owner, was born there. Godfrey and Eldridge plan to move in. The farm lies close to pavement and a ward school, marking a notable local transaction.
The annual Baptist Sunday school picnic was held Thursday at Chautauqua Park with about two hundred members attending. A noon picnic was served by church ladies followed by an athletic program featuring running races, nail driving, stocking darning, cycling, and a 15 to 12 ball game between the brotherhood class and Class No. 10.
Essay-like piece arguing that a strong digestion underpins citizenship and patriotism. Promotes a medical adviser and a patent remedy, urging readers to request Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, sent free with stamp payment to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo.
Notice from H. W. B. of A Washington Baptist Sunday School urges all scholars teachers and officers to attend next Sunday. August activities include surprise Sunday and Tag Sunday with D I Coon guiding Class No 10.
In a small sea port shop a merchant stacks candy and cigars with an engine on display. He explains he serves customers at their pace, not pushing sales, preferring friendly talk over high pressure tactics.
A Yorkshire and Lancashire man trade a pun about missing fingers after a York shire man loses two fingers in a steam saw accident. The foreman scatters a coin in sawdust, and the fingers pop up, illustrating the joke about finding Yorkshire man’s fingers.
Two men visit a haberdasher selling collars at a cent apiece. One buys two dozen varying in size while the other learns the five cent collars are used to reel in strangers. The buyer explains guests staying overnight exhaust his stock and a wife’s kindness provides five cent toothbrushes for guests.
The text discusses men not understanding women because they cannot and women not understanding men because they do not have to. It comments on perceived differences in insight and social dynamics between genders.
A late night encounter features a highly intoxicated man who asks a pedestrian to search his pockets. The man finds a pipe tobacco and cloves, then reveals his plan to recount the other man’s supposed theft to his wife, hoping to invoke sympathy and avoid detection.
A humorous exhortation promotes kindness in speech, urging readers to temper blunt yes or no replies with sunshine. It warns that harsh words harm plans and relationships and urges careful, cheerful communication.
The New York World recounts a comic scene in Shantey’s tent where Fire Commissioner Waldo and Secretary Sheehan demand no celery while waiter Hickey pressively tries to upsell it. The dispute escalates to the proprietor Shanley as tension rises between diner authority and a stubborn menu.
A woman doctor visiting a Mormon community faced a bizarre proposal to marry the doctor and live with the husband. The doctor fled in horror and received support from a friend who condemned the idea, noting the husband’s behavior as horrid.
A southern colonel famed for tall tales tells a dinner tale about a buck he shot. His negro servant parries the absurdity by re narrating a hind leg bullet path, prompting the master to admit the need to tighten his ending.
Detective Frank Wood walks Prospect Avenue last summer after a merchant halts him and surveys his attire. The merchant dismisses the curiosity, saying the question is nothing and implies the nickname fine clothes man is a simple label.
A severely burned laborer, treated with swathed cotton due to lack of materials, relapsed when the wrapped face caught fire again while rolling and lighting a cigarette. The physician was summoned to assist as the injured man claimed, Say boss, dont tell about this misfortunate accident. Jes' suv had a relapse.
A Saturday Evening item describes two golfers at Pineburgt with one amateur runner up in major events. A silent Chicago friend moves about as the amateur later quips about keeping quiet. The round shows mishits on the first two holes and a tense, if odd, tension-filled scene surrounding dialogue.
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